The Neu-Freimann DP camp near her has been converted into a processing center for Jewish immigrants bound for Israel. In order to clear the camp for this purpose, over 1,000 non-Jewish DP’s were transferred by the I.R.O. to other centers in Bavaria.
A total of 25,000 immigrants will be processed through Neu Freimann, which ?as served as a DP center since 1945, at the rate of approximately 5,000 per month. Originally, it was planned to send 10,000 a month through the camp, but the backlog in Israel caused the slow-down here.
Representatives of the British military authorities and German officials attended a ceremony marking the restoration of the Jewish cemetery at Dortmund, in the British zone, and the erection of a memorial to the Jewish war dead, it was reported here today. The head of the Dortmund municipality, a non-Jew who was active in re-storing the cemetery, was one of the chief speakers at the ceremony.
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